Harper urges quicker action on Chalk River reactor

Aug 14, 2009
Steve Rennie
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5impNUsHgcqqFtrXVBUMdAq9mXS4g

Raitt regrets miscues in isotope crisis

Seeks firm repair date after latest reactor delay
Aug 14, 2009
Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/681150

How Canada let the world down

AECL says isotope-producing reactor will be out of service until spring; medical officials call delay ‘a disaster,' fear even longer wait
Aug 14, 2009
Anna Mehler Paperny
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/how-canada-let-the-world-down/article1250565/

Memo to Ottawa: Rethink isotope plans

Ottawa must review decision to mothball MAPLE program for sake of our reputation – and health of the world
Aug 14, 2009
Tom Campbel
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/681031

Where have all the Fraser River sockeye salmon gone?

Natives point to over-fishing at sea, want total ban on all salmon on river
Aug 14, 2009
Brian Lewis
The Province
http://www.canada.com/technology/Column+Where+have+Fraser+River+sockeye+salmon+gone/1893791/story.html

Parasite infects Atlantic finches

Aug 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/14/pei-finch-parasite.html

Arctic ice experiencing severe summer retreat: Experts

Aug 14, 2009
Randy Boswell
Canwest News Service
http://www.canada.com/technology/Arctic+experiencing+severe+summer+retreat+Experts/1894560/story.html

Antarctic glacier melting at faster rate: scientists

Aug 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/14/antarctica-ice-melt-pine-island.html

Swine-flu vaccine now being tested on humans

Aug 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/14/swine-flu-vaccine.html

Polio surges in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates

Aug 14, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/14/polio-vaccine-oral-nigeria.html

Low estrogen birth control pills reduce clot risk

Aug 14, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/14/birth-control-pills-clots.html

Ontario-wide swine flu study begins

Aug 14, 2009
Theresa Boyle
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/681115

Wind, solar energy producer runs out of steam

SkyPower has filed for protection from creditors after collapse of major shareholder Lehman Bros.
Aug 14, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/681062

Greenpeace plays on atheist campaign

Catchy billboards meant to bring awareness to dwindling fish stocks
Aug 13, 2009
PATRICIA BROOKS ARENBURG
Chronicle-Herald
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1137231.html

Lawsuit seeks to halt U.S. seismic blasting in Canadian waters

Aug 13, 2009
Larry Pynn
Vancouver Sun
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Lawsuit+seeks+halt+seismic+blasting+Canadian+waters/1889327/story.html

Health minister's hasty departure

It is not too much to ask that Leona Aglukkaq provide explanations and respond to pertinent questions about a potentially life-and-death issue in a public forum
Aug 13, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/health-ministers-hasty-departure/article1251372/

H1N1: Aglukkaq exits before taking main questions

MPs furious after Tory leaves early
Aug 13, 2009
Christina Spencer
Sun Media
http://lfpress.ca/perl-bin/publish.cgi?x=articles&p=272364&s=politics

Right hook, wrong angle

The Great Lakes fishery is safe – it's recreational fishermen who have to watch what they catch
Aug 13, 2009
Peter Meisenheimer and Rick Smith
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/right-hook-wrong-angle/article1250863/

B.C. Interior breast cancer tests questioned

Aug 13, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/bc-kelowna-breast-exams-.html

Millions fewer salmon

Aug 13, 2009
Paul J. Henderson
The Times
http://www.vancouversun.com/Millions+fewer+salmon/1890953/story.html

Sask. oilsands need 3-year 'pause': environment group

Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/13/oilsands.html

Diversion proposal doesn’t hold water

Ontario, Quebec and the Great Lakes states are unlikely to support the Gingras plan
Aug 12, 2009
Frank Quinn
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/12/diversion-proposal-doesn-t-hold-water.aspx

Canadian changes in the air

Aug 12, 2009
Virginia Gewin
Nature
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/090813/full/nj7257-920a.html

Parks Canada cuts scientific research budget in Banff

Aug 12, 2009
Cathy Ellis
For The Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Parks+Canada+cuts+scientific+research+budget+Banff/1884125/story.html

Canada’s R&D spending will stagnate this year, likely remain weak in 2010

Aug 12, 2009
JOHN CLINKARD
Journal of Commerce
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id34885

Solving (almost) Canada's productivity puzzle

Study examines why Canada lags in competitiveness
Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/08/10/f-productivity-statistics-canada-study.html

A summer of discontent over Ottawa's flu plan

Aglukkaq blasts opposition as government doles out $926,600 to develop strategies that businesses can use to get through pandemic
Aug 13, 2009
Caroline Alphonso and Bill Curry
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/a-summer-of-discontent-over-ottawas-flu-plan/article1249561/

Millions of missing fish signal crisis on the Fraser River

More than nine million sockeye have vanished from B.C. river. How it happened remains a mystery
Aug 13, 2009
Mark Hume
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/millions-of-missing-fish-signal-crisis-onthefraserriver/article1249976/

Quebec seeks federal compensation for isotope costs

Isotope shortage could cost province $10M by end of year: Bolduc
Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/isotope-shortage.html

Doctors worry about long-term isotope supply

Idled Chalk River reactor won't restart until 2010
Aug 13, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/13/chalk-river-isotope-reactor081309.html

Injection site for Toronto under study

Aug 12, 2009
Megan Ogilvie
Toronto Star
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/679845

Singapore, China find Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 viruses: WHO

Aug 12, 2009
Helen Branswell
The Canadian Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ga4fc-CuD_2uVK_dOPlbPaGheujw

NASA can't track dangerous asteroids: report

Aug 13, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/13/asteroid-threat-earth-collide-detect-nasa.html

Doer, Prentice meet on climate change

Aug 12, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/12/manitoba-prentice-climate.html

DNA research in N.W.T. sparks genetic sampling concerns

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/11/nwt-dna-research.html

Our medicine review board is broken

The government should undertake a comprehensive review of the Patented Medicine Review Board
Aug 11, 2009
Jeffrey Graham and Alissa Raphael
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/11/our-medicine-review-board-is-broken.aspx

GM’s electric clunker

The Volt would not exist but for ‘energy independence’ mania
Aug 11, 2009
Peter Foster
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/11/peter-foster-gm-s-electric-clunker.aspx

Will the Chevy Volt really go 230 miles per gallon? That depends

Aug 12, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/12/national-post-editorial-board-will-the-chevy-volt-really-go-230-miles-per-gallon-that-depends.aspx

No need to panic on Tamiflu

Aug 12, 2009
National Post editorial board
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/12/national-post-editorial-board-no-need-to-panic-on-tamiflu.aspx

Ottawa says it won't block Nortel sale

Aug 12, 2009
STEVEN CHASE AND SHAWN MCCARTHY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawa-says-it-wont-block-nortel-sale/article1249058/

PM stands firm on Nortel

Harper says foreign asset sale will be examined, but Tories won't support increased protectionism
Aug 12, 2009
Les Whittington
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/679841

West Nile has likely stricken 20,000 Albertans

Aug 11, 2009
Michelle Lang
Calgary Herald
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/plus+Albertans+West+Nile/1880204/story.html

More E. coli in sand than water

Study suggests beach sand contains far more E. coli and parasites than beach water does, and could cause gastrointestinal illness
Aug 12, 2009
DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/more-e-coli-in-sand-than-water/article1248992/

Benefits of mammograms, PSA tests overestimated: study

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/11/mammogram-psa-screening.html

Inuit fear Canadian flu plan won't work

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/11/inuit-newfoundland-811.html

Canadian Science Policy Conference, Toronto, October 28-30 2009

Aug 11, 2009
Canadian Science Policy Conference
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2009/11/c4032.html

The Canadian Government’s War on Science

Aug 11, 2009
David Eaves
Agoravox
http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=10547

We are in need of a ‘Canadian renewal'

The responsibility for our sagging R&D performance falls squarely on the shoulders of business
Aug 7, 2009
Konrad Yakabuski
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/we-are-in-need-of-a-canadian-renewal/article1245408/

Federal action needed to bring up venture capital numbers: CVCA

Aug 11, 2009
Elizabeth Howell
Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/295158376463456.php

Feds need to boost innovation and technology: premiers

Aug 8, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/07/premiers-conference-pensions.html

Canada's nuclear know-how in accelerated decay, scientists fear

Expert panel begins pondering the future of the country's medical isotopes program
Aug 10, 2009
Patrick White
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-nuclear-know-how-in-accelerated-decay-scientists-fear/article1246467/

Scientific Literacy Quiz

Aug 11, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/science/article/679050

Canada dismisses warning about flu drug

Study raises questions about effectiveness of Tamiflu for young children, but public health agency stands by broad use of treatment
Aug 11, 2009
Caroline Alphonso
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tamiflu-effective-in-treating-children-canada-maintains/article1247247/

Flu antivirals not worth risk in children

Aug 11, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/10/flu-antiviral-tamiflu.html

Pollution tax? It's already here

Aug 10, 2009
Tyler Hamilton
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/678638

Dropping the Nortel ball

Aug 11, 2009
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/679092

Keep Nortel assets in Canada, RIM says

Sale of key wireless assets to Swedish firm was fair, Nortel executive tells Commons committee
Aug 7, 2009
Les Whittington & Joanna Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/677665

The enticements of green carrots

Nudging people with environmental incentives may work better than imposing costs and penalties
Aug 8, 2009
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-enticements-of-green-carrots/article1245360/

Grizzlies will never roam all Prairies again: Report

Aug 10, 2009
Kelly Cryderman
Calgary Herald
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Grizzlies+will+never+roam+Prairies+again+Report/1879245/story.html

Premiers disappoint green groups in Regina

Aug 7, 2009
Angela Hall
Canwest News Service
http://www.vancouversun.com/Premiers+disappoint+green+groups+Regina/1873144/story.html

Drug companies resort to dirty tricks to keep prices high

Aug 10, 2009
The Economist
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Drug+companies+resort+dirty+tricks+keep+prices+high/1876935/story.html

Much spin, little sense with electric car rebates

Aug 8, 2009
Peter Gorrie
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/678161

Green suasion or mind control?

Officials hoping to stem emissions are getting their message massaged by psychologists
Aug 8, 2009
Catherine Porter
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/678162

Climate change 'greatest challenge': UN chief

Aug 10, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/10/un-chief-climate.html

Arctic ice watchers concerned by warm summer

Aug 10, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/10/summer-ice-melt-arctic.html

Acid rain falling on Sask. from Alberta oilsands, says lobby

Aug 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/10/sask-acid-rain-levels-environment-oilsands.html

Manitoba studies plug-in hybrid impact on hydro grid

Aug 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/10/manitoba-hybrid-cars.html

World's potato experts meet in Fredericton

Virus Y focus of international conference
Aug 10, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/08/10/potato-conference.html

Elm tree spray program prompts health concerns

Aug 10, 2009
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/08/10/manitoba-beetle-spraying.html

NASA wants proposals for space taxis

Aug 10, 2009
Irene Klotz
Reuters
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/NASA+wants+proposals+space+taxis/1878436/story.html

Swine flu school closings discouraged

Aug 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/07/swine-flu.html

Cheaper HIV drugs coming for poor countries

Aug 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/07/hiv-tb-clinton.html

The psychology of climate change

New report from APA explains reluctance to act on climate change warnings, offers advice
Aug 7, 2009
Anne-Marie Tobin
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/the-psychology-of-climate-change/article1245158/

Toxic logic at Health Canada

Will Canadians have to go to the U.S. to buy safe plastic toys?
Aug 5, 2009
Elmer Rauckman
Financial Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/08/05/toxic-logic-at-health-canada.aspx

What do we know about the vaccines' safety? Not enough

In the headlong rush to do good, we need to be sure we don't end up doing harm
Aug 7, 2009
Alan Cassels and Arthur Schafer
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/what-do-we-know-about-the-vaccines-safety-not-enough/article1242422/

Harper manipulating the scientific process

Aug 7, 2009
Evan Wood
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/677476

Of causation, correlation and calories

Aug 7, 2009
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1867858

House committee calls meeting on Nortel sale

Aug 7, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/05/nortel-sale-industry-committee.html

The premiers and the flu

Aug 7, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/the-premiers-and-the-flu/article1244151/

‘Cash for clunkers' won't help the planet, experts say

Trading in old, gas-guzzling vehicles may help ailing auto industry, but as far as attacking climate change, ‘it's just a drop in the bucket'
Aug 5, 2009
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/cash-for-clunkers-wont-help-the-planet-experts-say/article1242406/

Possible fix found for swine flu vaccine production

Aug 6, 2009
Helen Branswell
THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/article/677134

How much vaccine to order and who gets it?

While Ottawa could buy less than the maximum amount, it also could do exactly that and give any excess to poor countries
Aug 5, 2009
Françoise Baylis
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/how-much-vaccine-to-order-and-who-gets-it/article1242268/

Government rebates for hybrid cars miss the mark

Aug 7, 2009
Colby Cosh
National Post
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/08/07/colby-cosh-government-rebates-for-hybrid-cars-miss-the-mark.aspx

More kids getting inflammatory bowel disease, Ontario survey finds

Institute suggests that prevalence of Crohn's disease in children is rising, and doctors are trying to figure out why
Aug 5, 2009
ANNE-MARIE TOBIN
The Canadian Press
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/more-kids-getting-inflammatory-bowel-disease-ontario-survey-finds/article1242737/

Clean energy, not photo-op, should be premiers' priority

Provincial agreement on pollution standards would clear the way for action by Ottawa
Aug 5, 2009
Rick Smith
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/676159

Kirk says Canada is lost in space

Aug 7, 2009
Courier-Islander
http://www.canada.com/Kirk+says+Canada+lost+space/1868769/story.html

Mental health experts target ‘huge mismatch’ in funding

Stigma is diverting money for research, doctors say
Aug 7, 2009
Tony Spears
The Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Mental+health+experts+target+huge+mismatch+funding/1867684/story.html

FDA vows safety crackdown

Aug 6, 2009
The Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/06/fda-crackdown.html

Saskatchewan leads

Aug 5, 2009
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/saskatchewan-leads/article1241518/

Get fired up over badly managed forests

B.C. residents are rightfully furious that the lessons of the 2003 fire season appear to have been disregarded
Aug 5, 2009
Reese Halter
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/get-fired-up-over-badly-managed-forests/article1241134/

Prentice proposes stronger waste-water rules

Aug 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/08/06/nb-prentice-environment-wastewater-1240.html

Contaminated soils can yield healthy harvest

Aug 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/06/tech-crops-food-contaminated-soil-metals-vegetables.html

Lyme and the tale of two tests

As ticks spread into Canada, concern rises about rigour of existing screenings
Aug 5, 2009
Lia Grainger
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=1862342

Canada to order 50.4 million H1N1 vaccine doses

$400M contract goes to GlaxoSmithKline factory in Quebec City
Aug 6, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/06/swine-flu-vaccine.html

Human tests of swine flu vaccine start

Aug 5, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/05/swine-flu-vaccine.html

Health Canada studying effect of chemicals on infant genitals

Research will determine if the genitals of Canadian babies are being altered by their moms' exposure to bisphenol A or phthalates
Aug 7, 2009
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/health-canada-studying-effect-of-chemicals-on-infant-genitals/article1244166/

Reduce fetal exposure to BPA and phthalates, experts say

With Health Canada recently banning plastic baby bottles made from bisphenol A and proposing to ban certain toys, questions arise about whether similar actions should be taken to safeguard pregnant women
Aug 6, 2009
Martin Mittelstaedt
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/reduce-fetal-exposure-to-bpa-and-phthalates-experts-say/article1243872/

Hybrid rebates ineffective, study finds

Aug 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/04/hybrid-study.html

Swine flu deaths rise above 1,000: WHO

Aug 4, 2009
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/08/04/swine-flu-world.html

Science for Policy Project: Final Report

Aug 5, 2009
Bipartisan Policy Center
http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/11125